Though the hordes of siskins and the majority of purple finches have left,
I still have perhaps 10 siskins coming regularly to my feeders, usually
with the goldfinches - also several purple finches, both male and female.
I had seen very limited activity at my feeders for a day or two, reason
became apparent after I have twice seen my local tribe of crows mobbing a
Cooper in a tree next to the house.
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Tricia Reid
Mansfield Center
reidtri at gmail.com